I was wondering what the reaction from both the average Soviet citizen and the Soviet government was towards the moon landing. Where there any major political ramifications that resulted as result of the loss of the Space Race?

At the height of the Vietnam war, the United States was pretty occupied with the fighting in Vietnam, as well as the civil unrest because of the war back home. Surely this would've been a good opportunity for the North to take advantage of and stage a surprise attack on the South to further shatter American support for another war in Asia.

I just visited Omaha beach and was looking to find something. The beach only had seashells, dead crabs and seaweed. I randomly found one piece of coal. There were no other rocks anywhere to be found. Is there a chance this is a remanent or D day? Did the boats use coal? The coal was pretty solidified so imagine it’s pretty old.

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I read in many sites that soldiers did get PTSD in antiquity and the Middle Ages too. But I'm curious, was it as likely, common and severe as it is today? Did they have a way to cope with it?

I assume that their culture and ideals could influence the "outcome". I also assume that Medieval knights, for example, could find some peace in religion, maybe by praying or believing he did a service to God?

Watching films and television from the 50s,60s,70s I’ve noticed that married couples are often shown sleeping in separate beds next to each other. In most it doesn’t seem to be because they’re having an argument, rather that that’s just what was done. I am wondering when couples started sleeping in the same bed together.

I’m thinking like the average Joe German who got swept up and ended up supporting the nazis. What they were thinking, what motivated them, etc

We naturally focus on the extraordinary stories of the victims of that period like Anne Frank and concentration camp survivors, and the extraordinary evil of concentration camp guards or high ranking nazis, I’m just after a normal person who kindof gets swept up in all.

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Did the average German soldier or even citizen during the second world war understand their role in the Holocaust? Was their fight more idealistic and nationalistic without an understanding that people were being killed en masse or did they fight believing that the systematic genocide was part of what they were fighting for?

The early 1700’s saw the development of “molly houses” in London were gay or bisexual men could meet, in some cases perform drag, and have sex. Court documents indicate similar meeting houses existed from then until the early 1800’s. The next records I can find of a public meeting place for gay men in London was “the Cave of the Golden Calf” in 1912, followed by the “Caravan Club” in the 1930’s. What records do we have of public meeting places for gay men in the Victorian era? What about outside London? And when was the first “gay bar” in the Americas?

Why did nations agree to decolonize? Was it due to the rise of morally-driven groups back home that would lobby for the government to stop or because nations could no longer afford to maintain colonies post WW2 (combined by some sort of a global trend of independence movements, inspired by the success of others)?

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What about other kingdoms at the time? Would a Parthian king speak Latin? An Armenian king Greek?

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I am studying telecommunications and the textbook references the Royal Road and how couriers were expected to cross the entire 2700KM distance in 7 days when foot travel would normally take 90 days. In looking for more information regarding the Royal Road I aw Wikipedia states the couriers were held to slightly more reasonable 9 days.

All I can think of is ye olde pony express as they were able to do East to West in 10 days which is about 4400KM. Did they do it like this, just swapping horses and making mad dashes like a baton race?

Hiding under your desk doesn’t do squat to save from a nuclear explosion.

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Watching "The Cold Blue" on HBO and they said that American pilots were ordered to fly day missions when it was less safe than flying night mission that the British Air Force routinely flew.

As an active submariner currently working for the Pearl Harbor shipyard, I'm wondering what happened afterwards? Drydocks and the air strip had to be rebuilt, and the crewmembers of ships needed to be saved, but what supervisory and planning went into executing those?

Additionally, how did the shipyard keep operating with all the ships coming to port after battle?

I was looking through old plane insignia's from around the 1940s, and I'm left wondering why Finnish and Lativan planes use the swastika as there main symbol to use on planes, just seems a little odd since they were both indirectly against Germany in second world war period?

If someone could fill me in then it would be greatly appreciated